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Record-breaking number of record-breaking DDoS attacks confirmed

And growing abuse of cloud – because using hijacked Brazilian cable modems to down sites is so 2013 Dozens of companies over the weekend were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, including the largest one yet recorded, or so Cloudflare says.…

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Record-breaking number of record-breaking DDoS attacks confirmed

Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there’s no fix yet

There goes the weekend… A high-severity Palo Alto Networks denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been exploited by miscreants looking to launch DDoS attacks, and several of the affected products won’t have a patch until next week.…

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Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there’s no fix yet

Education Ministry website is under DDoS-attacks

Website of the Ministry of Education and Science does not work due to DDoS-attack. As noted by Interfax-Ukraine, citing the press service of the department, the attack on the portal has been made yesterday. “The attack was made on the weekend, and as a result of it the website is down”, noted in the department. According to the ministry, at the moment the attack has been finished, the work to restore the website is underway, but they have not completed it yet. Earlier the websites of the Ministry of Finance, the State Treasury and the Pension Fund also suffered from the hacker attacks. Source: http://112.international/society/education-ministry-website-is-under-ddos-attacks-12465.html

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Education Ministry website is under DDoS-attacks